Mobile

The Mobile Convention Center with the cranes
of the Alabama State Docks on the far right

It was another morning of not really caring what time we got up since it was going to be just a 30 mile travel day with nothing but bayou to see and anchor in again.  Anchor was lifted out of the mud of David Lake just before eight o'clock.  There was plenty of commercial traffic again, but nothing that really effected us.  Prior to eleven o'clock Ray was trying to remember who he talked to recently about docking in Mobile, Alabama.  If you are that person reading this, remind him who you are because he never did recall.  That got us researching.  As we tell our nephew, Zackery, you have to read.  In actually reading one of our old guide books we found a phone number to call security about staying on the free dock.  Surprisingly enough, the phone number was still good and Ron, the security guard on duty at the time, was ever so helpful and welcoming to us.  We revved up the engines a little more and traveled 12 miles farther than we planned.  Had we planned this ahead of time we would have gotten up and started the day earlier.

North end of the Convention Center
free dock with Ron waiting for us

Ron helped us tie up when we arrived just before two o'clock.  That's also what time he got off duty, so Jeff was the next shift until ten o'clock, then someone we did not meet, and Ron would be back at six o'clock tomorrow morning.  Ron gave us directions on where to go be tourists.  It was just across the street from our present location at the convention center to Dauphin Street.  It also happened to be Art Walk night, so we had a fun and pleasant evening visiting lots of local establishments.  Our first stop had a poetry reading upstairs, which we were making fun of.  Later in the evening that poetry reading had moved outside.  It was good enough to make us stop and thoroughly enjoy it for the short time that it remained.  Who knew?  Actually wish we would have enjoyed it sooner.

A cool saying I liked among many that were painted on one of the buildings downtown